Stuff I listen to:

This book has been on my nightstand for a long while and I finally sat down and got a chance to finish it. I didn’t hate the book, but I didn’t love it either.

First, it was a very similar premise to Ready Player One*. A young kid who lives his life playing video games and has an afinity for 80s music. Second, a lot of things felt very rushed. The book could have spent more time on the attacks and talked a bit more about Earth’s reaction. Instead it just focused on a few “dog fights” and didn’t deliver on the bigger effect accross the world. Finally, the love story seemed very forced. I understand the need to use this element, but it seemed so unecessary in the context of this book. Almost, felt like she was written in after the fact and to just check a box off.

If you’re on the fence on which book to read first or which book to read at all, skip Armada* and go for Ready Player One.

A lot of people run into me in the Cisco Support Forums as I try to keep pretty active not only to keep my memory fresh on some stuff I don’t touch much but to also keep a pulse on what the world is working on. The forum allows other users to provide you with points based on how they find your answers useful. Just got to the next level based on points awarded, a lovely shade of blue.

I’ve been trying to get more proficient with git and figured the only way to do that is to get my hands dirty and write some simple app(s) and push them to a production server. There are my notes, mainly for me to help me remember how this stuff works.

The very first time you do a git init to initialize your repository.

git init

You do this every time you want to add new changes to your reposiotry.

git add .

To see the status of things which are going to be added, removed.

git status

Once you’re happy with what you want to commit, leave your future self a little love note.

git commit –m “Doing something”

You only do this the first time to setup your remote repository destination.

While most people use AWS, I like to use Azure and there’s just not a lot of information relating Azure and Laravel, so figured this might be useful for others. This assumes a level of comfort with Linux and Azure.

Give your VM some basic information: Name, User name, Authentication Type (SSH public key is my preference). Create a new resource group, I always use the same name as the VM and Location. I usually do the A1 Standard size.

Click ok to choose the defauls under Settings.

Click OK on summary and your VM will start deploying, this will take about 10-15 minutes to complete.

Once running, click the VM, Public Ip address/DNS name label, All Settings, Configuration, and give it a DNS name. I do this to not have to deal with IP addresses and use actual names.

Recently had a hard time figuring out how to get to the RAID confirugation tool in a C240 M3. No matter how much I put in Control-R or Control-V or any other convination I always ended up in EFI Shell.

Well, the WebBIOS is actually right behind the EFI Shell. Just type “exit” and enjoy. Killed me.

I had not used X-Lite for over a year and decided to load it up and realized that there’s an upgrade and older version of the software are no longer valid. So I upgraded and noticed that my Flowroute settings didn’t migrate correctly. I went to Flowroute got my credentials and moved them over, but noticed that my caller ID was not the caller ID I wanted. After playing around with it a bit I realized that I had to set my User ID to the caller ID I wanted displayed and moved my username/auth to “"Authorization name”. Now it’s working like it used to.

I’ve been trying to get more proficient with git and figured the only way to do that is to get my hands dirty and write some simple app(s) and push them to a production server. There are my notes, mainly for me to help me remember how this stuff works.

The very first time you do a git init to initialize your repository.

git init

You do this every time you want to add new changes to your reposiotry.

git add .

To see the status of things which are going to be added, removed.

git status

Once you’re happy with what you want to commit, leave your future self a little love note.

git commit –m “Doing something”

You only do this the first time to setup your remote repository destination.